Mount Rushmore Memorial Guide

Welcome to the self-guided, narrated, and fully offline driving tour of Mount Rushmore National Memorial! With this tour, you’ll see it from different angles, learn its history, and uncover little-known facts about its creation and the man behind it.

Featuring riveting stories, a phenomenal narrator, and easy automatic audio, this app puts exploration in the palm of your hand!

Mount Rushmore:

See Mount Rushmore in a whole new way—both literally and figuratively! Seeing this incredible monument in person is nothing like the photographs, so get ready to be blown away. And to make your viewing even better, this tour leads you around the whole memorial site, featuring tons of different angles on these iconic faces.

Plus, as you walk, you’ll learn everything there is to know about the story behind this memorial, including some things most folks never discover! Get to know the complicated sculptor behind it all, see a model of his original vision for the mountain, and find out why he wasn’t quite able to make good on his grand designs. Plus, get insight into the Lakota history of this mountain and the controversy that surrounds the monument to this day.

Two million people visit Mount Rushmore every year. But you don’t just want to snap a picture or two and then leave, do you? Turn your trip into a rich historical expedition with this easy, totally flexible audio tour and make the most of your visit!

TOUR STORIES:
■ Welcome
■ Gutzon Borglum
■ Avenue of Flags
■ Why These Four Faces?
■ Launching the Project
■ How Did They Carve It?
■ Trouble Brewing
■ The Hall of Records
■ Sculptor’s Studio
■ Presidential Trail
■ The Six Grandfathers
■ Ongoing Controversy
■ North by Northwest
■ Preservation
■ Adding New Faces?

HOW IT WORKS:
As you travel, audio stories play automatically based on your location. Simply go to the starting point of the tour and begin following the given route. Each story begins playing on its own, usually just before you reach a point of interest.

TOUR FEATURES:

▶ Freedom of travel
No scheduled tour times, no crowded buses, and no rush to keep moving past stops that interest you. You have total freedom to skip ahead, linger, and take as many photos as you’d like.

▶ Automatic play
No muss, no fuss. Just follow the app’s built-in route to all the must-visit spots — the audio stories about every